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6.12.2006

What ever happened to John Stamstad?

this weekend past I raced on a four man vet team at Granny Gear's 24 Hours of Big Bearit was a hoot, a hollar, and a screamthat may be hollerbut I think we went down and up few West Virginia hollarsnot sureas I am not sure if I could define homonyms or synonmsI am certain I can not spell either

the race is overit is all behind me other than the soreness and the gloryalong with the memories this weekend createdit also created a few questions....one of those questions is

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO JOHN STAMSTAD?

Laird Knight is famous for creating the 24 Hour Mountain Bike Race formatwhile John Stamstad created the ultra endurance solo classtogether they changed the sport of mountian bikingthere is no going backthere is a new understanding of the limits of the human body

but, what ever happened to John Stamstad?is he running the Singletrack Ranch?leading tours?coaching endurance athletes?or still racing?a few years ago a friend of mine saw him mountain biking in Guatemalabut other than that... I have heard nothinga quick GOOGLE brings up some stuffbut not the answers I am looking formuch of that is background information

either way.... Stamstad was a bad ass and I am confident that he still is an endurance machine!thanks for being who you arewhere ever you are

this year at Granny Gear's 24 Hours of Big Bear Steve Schwarz took first in solo in a very Stamstad styleriding his own racenot trying for the fastest lap times he could achievebut rather knocking out each lap in a very consistent stylefast but not his fastest

8 comments:

Rocco- Big Bear kicked butt. that course was as fun as it gets. TWO THUMBS WAY UP!

Iggy Baran was there- fun to see him. he was lamanenting how tough it is for him carrying a lot of extra weight. I reminded him he was still lighter than me (and I'm a lot lighter than joel), so not getting a lot of sympathy.

Steve Schwartz was very friendly- I spent a good bit of time on my first lap (his 4th I guess) chatting with him. then I remembered I was suppossed to be trying to go fast.

Iggy here. Yes, I am up in Boston for a few more months. It looks like I'll be back working in DC in the summer of 08 and I'm looking forward to it. If you want to get in touch try me at iggybaran@hotmail.com

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